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E. J. YOUNG.

MACHINE FOB DlPPING MATCHES.

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MACHINEA FOR DIPPING MATCHES.

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EDWIN J. YOUNG, OF VADSVORTH, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHIO MATCH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR DIPPING MATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,757, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed April l1, 1898.

To CZZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. YOUNG, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Wadsworth, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Dipping Matches, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to machinery for dipping matches-that is to say, for applying paraffin and the ignitin g composition to matchsticks.

In the class of machines to which my invention more especially relates the sticks or splints are cut from blocks of wood, and as cut are stuck in plates, and these plates, with the sticks or splints stuck therein, are used as vehicles for holding the sticks or splints while the latter are undergoing the operations of receiving the paraffin or similar inflammable coating and the fulminating or igniting composition. The plates stuck full of match-` splints niay be delivered automatically from the cutting-machine to the machine for applying the paraffin and the composition, whence they are taken for further manipulation.

My invention is designed to facilitate the handling of the plates and the application to the sticks or splints of -the paraffin and the igniting or fulminating composition.

My invention consists of a frame having a heating box or chamber, an adjacent paraffintank, and next to that means for applying the igniting or fulminating composition, and means for dragging'and guiding the plates past these several members and delivering the same at a dist-ance therefrom, the invention including details of construction, all as I will hereinafter more particularly point out and distinctly claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevation and a partial Vertical section of one illustration of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, on an enlarged scale, of one of the sticking-plates. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of a number of peculiar links used in the drag-chain. Fig. 5 is a vertical Serial No. 677,170. (No model.)

cross-section, on a larger scale, taken substantially in a plane to the left of the extension a' a, Fig. l. Fig. Gis a perspective view of a portion of the guideway for the dragchain.

The main frame may be composed of uprights c, cross-pieces Z), and stringers c, and about the middle of the frame the uprights are extended. at a' above the stringers and are supplied with cross-pieces h, on which are supported a main driven shaft d, having the pulley CZ at one end, and next to it a toothed wheel d2. A shaft or stud c is provided with a toothed wheel e', which meshes with and is driven by a toothed wheel CZ?, and an idlerpinion f meshes with the toothed wheel e and is driven thereby and in turn meshes with and drives a pinion g on a shaft g, which is also mounted on the frame a Z2'. This shaft g is supplied with sprocket-wheels g2 g2. Near the ends of the frame are shafts ZL and h', on which are sprocket-wheels h2 h3, and over the sprocket-wheels g2, h2, and h3 are passed the endless chains i, which are of usual or approved construction excepting in the particulars hereinafter specified. These endless chains fi are driven from the shaft g by the train of gearing just described. Interposed at intervals in the chains fi are links j, such as shown in Fig. 4, each of which has a depending lug j on one side and an upwardlyextending lug 7'2 on the other side, the lug j? having a hole l7'3 in it. These links j are arranged at opposite points in the two dragchains t' and are connected by slack crosschains Zc, which chains are fastened at their ends in the holes j of the links j. The chains t travel in guideways formed on the adjacent faces of the stringers c, and said 'guideways are composed of horizontal grooves Z, having upper and lower face-plates Z Z2 for supporting the chains in such guideways. The groovesZ are extended at Z3 below the lower supports Z2, and the depending lugs j' of the special links j travel in these grooves Z3, and not only serve thus to guide the chains in their travel around the sprocket-wheels, but also prevent the displacement of the chains from said guideways. The stringers are also provided with rails m, on which the sticking-plates are supported as IOO they are dragged through the machine by the endless chains.

n is the heater, of any approved construction, located at the entrance end of the machine, and next to this heater is arranged the parallin-pan o, and opposite and above this parailin-pan the guideway is made as a double incline, as at o', Fig. l.

p is the composition-kettle, provided with any approved stirring device p' and the composition-roller r.

The shaft g/ is provided with the sprocketwheel s to drive a chain sl, which is supported upon the sprocket-wheels s2 and engages a sprocket-wheel s3 on the composition-roller shaft to drive that roller, motionbeing transmitted from the said roller to the stirrer by means of gear-wheels s* s, Fig. 5.

t is the sticking-plate, provided with the upwardly-projecting handles or loops t.

'lhc apparatus being ready to receive the match splints or sticks, the sticking-plate t, lilled with such sticks or splints, is introduced at the left-hand end of the machine, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and one of the cross-chains lf., engaging one of the loops t', carries the said plate, with its load of splints or sticks, across the heater and down the inclined portion o', so as to cause the splints or sticks to dip into the paraffin and absorb it, and then across thecomposition-roll,where the igniting or fulminating composition is applied, and then to lhe discharge end of the machine, where the drag-chains in rising over the sprockets 7l? h2 release the handle and permit removal of the plate.

I am aware that prior to my invention it was old to use d rag-chains ha vi ng cross-bars-that is to say, in iiexible or rigid cross-pieces; but I am not aware that d rag-chains have heretofore been used in which flexible cross-pieces, such as my cross-chains 7.1, are employed, and the function and utility of exible cross-chains will be apparent from the following statement: The filled sticking-plates are pushed into the machine, preferably from the cutting apparatus, irregularly with relation to the appearance of the cross-chains at the entrance, and hence some of the cross-chains will engage thc loops of the sticking-plates and others will not. If a cross-chain should happen to come down while the loop is right under it, as often occurs, the slack of the chain will allow it to pass over the loop of the plate without moving it and the next descending cross-chain will engage such loop,and thus move the plate. Ordinarily the rate of movement of the cutting-machine is less than that of the dippingmachine, and hence it' rigid cross-bars were used such cross-bars on striking one of the loops would be likely either to break the loop or itself be broken, and obviously this cannot happen with the slack cross-chains of my invcntion. Thus it will appear that the use of slack cross-chains greatly increases the eliiciency and durability of the machine.

As will be understood, the lugs j by engaging the grooves Z3 prevent the strain on the cross-chains when in engagement with the plates from dragging the endless chains out of alinement. Another purpose of the gearing between the shaft d and the shaft y is to reduce the motion that is transmitted to the composition-roller, so as to impart to the said composition-roller a sufficiently' slow motion to efectively head the matches.

It is within my invention to use any approved form of endless chains, heating apparatus, paraihn-pan, and stirring and composition-applying means, as it is also to use any approved driving and powertransmitting means.

Vhat I claim isl. A machine for dipping matcl1es,comp1ising essentially a frame provided with a box or chamber for heating the splints or sticks, means for applying usual combustible and igniting agents to such splints or sticks, rails for supporting the sticking-plate, endless drag-chains connected at intervals by slack cross-chains, the said cross-chains being adapted to en gage the sticking-plate and carry it through the machine, and means to move the said drag-chains, the slack of the crosschains enabling them to pass the stickingplate without engaging it excepting only as one of the said cross-chains comes into proper relative position to engage such sticking-plate, substantially as described.

2. A machine for dipping matches, having rails to support a sticking-plate and guide it through the machine, endless traveling dragchains,guideways in which said chains travel, opposite links in said chains having depending lugs to engage the said guideways and hold the chains therein,and also provided with upwardly-projecting lugs, and cross-chains extended from the lugs of one chain to the adjacent lugs of the opposite chain, and adapted to engage and carry forward the stickingplate, substantially as described.

3. A machine for dipping matches, having rails to support a sticking-plate and guide it through the machine, pairs of endless chains provided with opposite links, guideways in which said chains travel, having upper and lower retaining-faces for said chains, and also having supplemental grooves at their bases, links having depending lugs to engage said supplemental grooves and also having upwardly-projecting lugs, and cross-chains extending from the upwardly-projecting lugs of one chain to those of the opposite chain, and adapted to engage and carry forward the sticking-plate, substantially as described.

4. A machine for dipping matches, having rails to support a sticking-plate and guide it through the machine, a heater, a paraffinpan, a composition-applying mechanism, the guideways, and a pair of endless chains traveling through such guideways, and supplied with slack cross-chains, and means to hold the endless chains within the guideways, the cross-chains being adapted to engage the IOC) IIO

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of April, A. D. 1898.

EDWIN J. YOUNG.

FRANK C. LEE, MINNIE M. YOUNG. 

